What can I claim secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list benign prostatic hyperplasia as a factor. If DVA has accepted your benign prostatic hyperplasia, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionBenign prostatic hyperplasia
- Conditions it may open1
- SourceRMA SoPs
- Chart Review$600 + GST
How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your benign prostatic hyperplasia, and another condition's SoP lists benign prostatic hyperplasia as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list benign prostatic hyperplasia as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Malignant neoplasm of the bladder
RH No. 83 of 2019
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (21): “having benign prostatic hyperplasia at least five years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the bladder” [clinical onset]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Other accepted conditions that also open malignant neoplasm of the bladder
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions benign prostatic hyperplasia does.
What DVA means by benign prostatic hyperplasia
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, benign prostatic hyperplasia: (a) means a benign hyperplasia of the prostate glandular and stromal tissue which can cause obstruction of urine outflow; and (b) excludes: (i) malignant neoplasm of the prostate; (ii) overactive bladder; and (iii) prostatitis.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(3) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, benign prostatic hyperplasia where it was already present before or during service. If service caused benign prostatic hyperplasia outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 13 of 2025 · BoP No. 14 of 2025 · 1 factors
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